Completely unrelated to inflation and various measures thereof:
Senate Republicans have been stonewalling the nomination of Dilawar Syed to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Syed should be everything Republicans allegedly embrace – an immigrant who came to this country (legally) and through hard work and entrepreneurial spirit built up his private enterprises to create jobs and grow the economy. And indeed he was approved by the relevant Senate committee by voice vote.
BUT, the Parliamentarian determined that it had to be a roll call vote, and all Republicans committee members have refused to show up for multiple attempts to vote on Syed’s nomination. Republicans can’t quite seem to explain why they’re boycotting the vote, but gosh darn it has NOTHING to do with not wanting to be on record voting for a Muslim. No siree. It’s about a COVID loan he took (which he paid off, even though he could have asked to have it forgiven) or something about Israel (he’s supported by the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League). Because committees are split 50-50, the committee can’t vote without at least one Republican showing up.
The real “cringe” is Biden, who only thought of reforms after decades in government warmongering, among others. That might be the reason why there’s growing dissatisfaction.
The same goes for Trump, who did not think that infra reform is actually part of MAGA.
Modnote: It is right in the title, did you want a warning? I can’t let this slide with a modnote. You are accumulating warnings very frequently. Please try not to cause more problems, next up is most likely a suspension.
After discussions I am reducing this to a modnote.
I’d ride every day, I commuted every single day for 36 years as President, Vice President of the United States after my wife and daughter were killed, I went home to see my family, never stopped.
Rode home every day for 36 years as VP? Does this make any sense at all?
Good god. Watch the twitter clip; there’s a comma in that sentence. I rode home every day for 36 years COMMA [and] as president, uh vice president I never stopped.
He’s heaping praise on public transportation. He’s used it for decades. Which is manifestly true.
Thank you for pointing out that right leaning sites are suffering from dementia, and are unable to parse simple sentences.
Just hope that those who view the site are able to think for themselves, rather than just accept what they are told to believe and repeat it to others.
To be fair, CNN, America “picked him” because he was by far less likely to make any crisis worse than his opponent. That’s a pretty low bar to clear. We’ve reached the point where a President actually making things better is an added bonus, not an automatic expectation.
Dem leadership aren’t handling the infrastructure/climate/social bills well across the board.
If this week was a hard deadline for Biden, he needed to make that clear long before now and do more than draft a reconciliation bill he hadn’t got everyone in the senate to agree to before trying to force the house to pass the bipartisan bill.
This also makes Schumer look especially bad because he’s apparently the one who knew that Manchin wouldn’t start negotiating seriously until October. If that was OK, the entire process may as well have been put on hold until then. If it wasn’t then he needed to put Manchin on blast at the time.
It seems fairly obvious that Democratic leadership doesn’t want to have to own any specific proposal. They want the moderates and progressives to fight it out for them. There are a lot of problems with this but probably the main one is that the House and Senate have to agree and there’s too much incentive to try to wait until the other chamber blinks. There needs to be some central figure playing a more direct role in the process. And coming it at the end after making the wings of the caucus spend months negotiating and acting like none of that mattered doesn’t help either.
Schumer has been confirming Biden’s judges at a rapid pace which doesn’t get any attention. McConnell was always heralded by the media for his ability to ram through judges handpicked by the Federalist Society.
